Opioid prescriptions after childbirth linked to increased risk of overdose, persistent use
Women who are prescribed opioids after childbirth have an increased risk of persistent opioid use or other serious opioid-related events, including overdose, in their first year postpartum, according to a new study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers. This is true regardless of whether the woman had a vaginal delivery or a cesarean section.
What does health care look like after COVID-19 pandemic?
In a new perspective piece published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Assistant Professor of Health Policy Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, joins fellow researchers and economists in projecting what health care delivery could look like after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vanderbilt Health Policy COVID-19 Model Finds Evidence of Flattening Curve, Recommends Distancing Policies Continue
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have found evidence of the rate of COVID-19 infection slowing in Tennessee, which reduces the chance that the state will run out of hospital capacity for patients.
3 Health Policy faculty named to COVID-19 Public Health Advisory Task Force at Vanderbilt
by Jalen Blue
Vanderbilt University Division of Communications